MJ Jenkins discusses her WWE release, losing a loved one to COVID-19, and what's next [Exclusive]

Looking back at your WWE run, you did some amazing stuff. Mae Young Classic, a rare mixed tag match, etc - how you feel about it overall when you look back, and what was your highlight of your time there?

Oh, man, there are so many because I can say the Mae Young Classic was definitely like the beginning. That was the kick off, because the year before that, I wasn't able to compete in that because I was already signed to a different company and that was when I was with IMPACT at the time, and so this year round, it was just like, "Yes!"

That was the kick off because that was one of my main goals, I was like, "I'm going to come in here and I'm going to kill it", and everything just felt so raw and authentic with all the fans, and it was like this huge rush of adrenaline pumped even with my entrance and we were rehearsing things and there are doing the whole thing of every girl standing on the ramp.

Definitely working with Denzel Dejournette. We came in the same class and Denzel is such a ball of energy. And I, as A Whole Lot Of Woman, am also a ball of energy. I'm sassy and all that, fierce. It wasn't even supposed to happen, that tag match that we had. It just happened that the card got switched around and it was like, "Who can we put with Denzel?" And I was like, "Hello!". That was fun, too.

I can say one of my other highlights was, we had the WrestleMania 36 pre-party and I got to work with Raquel Gonzalez and, oh my gosh. That was just like another great moment for me because, you know, they only put people out there who can really go and who can really get the crowd going, and who really is like all that and a bag of chips. And, honey, MJ Jenkins is all that and a bag of chips, you know what I'm saying? So, that was a lot of fun.

Even like the small... I can't say small because it is a big deal now that I look back at it. I've had a lot of time to reflect on everything that I've done and now that I look back at it, even when it was me, Kayden Carter and Mia Yim, and one girl who just had her debut match, Jessi Kamea, I believe.

It was all of us and we are in the locker room, and in comes barging the rest of the four horsewomen from MMA - Shayna Basler, Marina Shafir, Jessamyn Duke - and all hell breaks loose. I was just like, "You get out of my face!"

It was just like... You know, even that spilled over in NXT and we wound up coming out and trying to fight them. That was so... looking back at it now, I'm like, "Whoa". That was insane and it was fun, and it was just like, it was like everything that I'd hoped for.

Even like, we've had corporate sponsors come through, like Fox, we had ESPN come by and the person they put there was guess who? Yours truly! A Whole Lot Of Woman MJ Jenkins because nobody rips that might like me. All of a sudden, I'm getting my family, like, "Oh, my God, we just seen you on ESPN". People are calling my family, saying, "Isn't that your aunt? Isn't that your sister?" I'm like, "Yes!"

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